The present invention relates to a method for transferring the print of a logo (i.e. an image or text) onto a food item, notably a bakery or pastry item, butcher's products and cooked pork meats or a solid dairy product, and to an edible ink composition and a carrier medium for this purpose.

A method of transferring an image to an article is provided using a heat-transfer assembly having a support layer and an image transfer layer, wherein the image transfer layer contains a binder, ink receptor and a film-forming, hydrophilic blocking agent. When an aqueous ink composition is used to print an image on the upper surface of the transfer assembly, the blocking agent is disrupted in the imaged areas, but not the unimaged areas, such that when the image is transferred to a substrate by the application of heat and pressure, substantially all of the binder in the unimaged areas remains with the transfer assembly.

A recording method according to the present disclosure includes: ejecting a pigment ink containing a pigment and water from an ink jet head onto a transfer medium having a release layer to form a first layer; ejecting a processing solution from the ink jet head onto the first layer to form a second layer; and heating a surface of the transfer medium that has the first layer and the second layer, with the surface facing an absorbent receiving medium, to thermally transfer the first layer and the second layer onto the receiving medium, wherein the pigment ink contains a resin in an amount of 15.0 mass % or less, the processing solution contains a resin and water, and the first layer has a dryness of 0% or more and 80% or less when the processing solution is ejected.

A printing method for drawing an image on a transfer-receiving medium by transferring the image printed on a transfer medium to the transfer-receiving medium, the method including: a printing stage of printing the image on the transfer medium with a printing unit, which is a printing device; a hot melt resin adhering stage of causing hot melt resin powder to adhere to the transfer medium; and a transfer stage of transferring the image from the transfer medium to the transfer-receiving medium, in which the printing unit includes a colored ink head that ejects a colored ink and a clear ink head that ejects a clear ink, and in the printing stage, the clear ink is further ejected from the clear ink head to at least a part of a region to which the colored ink is ejected from the colored ink head in the transfer medium.

A dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus manufactures a dye-deposited base body. The dye-deposited base body is used in a dyeing step of dyeing a resin body. A dye to be transferred to the resin body is deposited to a base body. The dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus is provided with a printing device, a conveyance device, and a base body movement device. The printing device prints a dye for dyeing the resin body on the base body. The conveyance device conveys a dyeing tray on which the dye-deposited resin body on which the dye is printed by the printing device is placed. The base body movement device moves the dye-deposited base body from a printing position by the printing device to a side of the conveyance device.

A direct to substrate printing assembly including a substrate, an ink printing station wherein the ink printing station is configured to print an ink layer onto the substrate, a binder application station wherein the binder application station is configured to dispose a binder onto the ink layer, a curing station, and a transfer station wherein the assembly is configured to transfer the ink layer and the binder layer disposed on the substrate to an article and wherein the assembly is fully automated. A method of direct to substrate printing and a composition for direct to substrate printing produced therefrom are also disclosed.

A transfer recording method includes a first layer forming step of discharging an image forming ink from an ink jet head onto a transfer medium having a release layer to form a first layer, a second layer forming step of discharging an adhesive ink from the ink jet head to form a second layer so as to be superimposed on the first layer, and a thermal transfer step of thermally transferring the first layer and the second layer onto fabric by heating a surface of the transfer medium on which the first layer and the second layer are formed in a state where the surface faces the fabric, in which the image forming ink includes a color material and water, the adhesive ink includes a thermoplastic resin and water, the softening point of the thermoplastic resin is equal to or lower than the temperature for heating the fabric in the thermal transfer step, the solid content of the thermoplastic resin is 5% by mass or more and 25% by mass or less based on the total amount of the adhesive ink, the application amount of the adhesive ink in the second layer forming step is 38 g/m.sup.2 or more, and the sum of the application amount of the image forming ink in the first layer forming step and the application amount of the adhesive ink in the second layer forming step is 212 g/m.sup.2 or less.

A manufacturing method for a housing is provided. The manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate, where the substrate includes a metal member and a plastic member combined with the metal member, the substrate includes an appearance surface, and the appearance surface extends from the metal member to the plastic member; cleaning the appearance surface, and performing surface treatment on the appearance surface to form an oxide film; forming a colored pattern on a heat-insulating film by using a color material; and placing the heat-insulating film on the appearance surface, and transferring the colored pattern to the appearance surface by dye sublimation.

A system includes liquid ink jet inks having pigments and sublimation dyes, a liquid enhancer ink formulated to print by an ink jet printer having a crosslinking agent that reacts with hydroxyl groups, and a transfer media comprising an ink receptive layer formed of a hydrophilic polymeric material that becomes swollen and tacky when exposed to the ink jet ink or the enhancer ink. The system is used to form an image on the transfer media by ink jet printing of the liquid ink jet inks and the liquid enhancer ink, wherein the imaged portion the polymeric material becomes swollen and tacky by application of the liquid ink jet inks and the liquid enhancer ink, transferring substantially only the image from the transfer media due to final substrate upon application of heat to the image. The system is nearly universal in its ability to transfer image substrates having varying properties.

An image formation device forms an ink layer on a film. The ink layer is configured to be transferred to a print medium. The image formation device includes a color head configured to eject color ink, a shielding head configured to eject shielding ink, and a processor. The processor forms a color layer on the film by ejecting the color ink from the color head onto the film. The color layer is the ink layer configured by the color ink and constituting an image. The processor forms a shielding layer by ejecting the shielding ink from the shielding head onto the color layer, in the film on which the color layer is formed. The shielding layer is the ink layer configured by the shielding ink.